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If you thought Mirai was bad, just wait for the first "IoT" car worm that gets people killed. I hope it never happens, but if it does...

W-Stool 5y ago
But you know eventually someone will do a big over the air firmware update and brick a couple of hundred cars. This is almost certain to happen eventually.
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- cartoonworld 5y ago
  ...by SIM jacking the legacy baseband models. This is all too prescient.
bigiain 5y ago
It’s weird, and almost a bit funny. For a brief moment. The first smashing can be felt more than heard, a subsonic strike something like a vast drumhead being struck with a metre-wide mallet, but so quick, you barely even notice it until it’s over. The second one, however, isn’t far behind, and it’s a bit louder. That second thump gives away its location — whatever it was seems to be happening quite close by — in the direction of the parking structure. At just this moment a car cruises through the pick-up zone at full speed, barreling along at least 100 kmh. It’s only because of some very fast reactions that no one gets hurt as it passes by. As it zooms past, you notice there’s no one behind the wheel. Before you have any time to process that, another huge thump nearby causes a section of the barrier wall of an upper floor of the concrete parking structure to shear off. A pile of rubble falls to the ground not very far away from you. -- Mark Pesce, Oct 2015, https://medium.com/@mpesce/the-great-hack-part-one-attack-70c5f7b22f34 https://medium.com/@mpesce/the-great-hack-part-one-attack-70...
_jal 5y ago
Relevant sci-fi: Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. (AI-controlled cars feature prominently as weapons.)
robin_reala 5y ago
I was momentarily confused when I parsed that sentence as referring to the Toyota Mirai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
MaxBarraclough 5y ago
There has already been a proof-of-concept hack of a vehicle: Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway. [0] (Incidentally, I applaud the top comment at [0]. Everyone involved in recklessly demonstrating the hack on public roads, should have faced serious consequences. As far as I can tell though, nothing came from the police report.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557

W-Stool 5y ago

But you know eventually someone will do a big over the air firmware update and brick a couple of hundred cars. This is almost certain to happen eventually.

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cartoonworld 5y ago
...by SIM jacking the legacy baseband models. This is all too prescient.

bigiain 5y ago

It’s weird, and almost a bit funny. For a brief moment. The first smashing can be felt more than heard, a subsonic strike something like a vast drumhead being struck with a metre-wide mallet, but so quick, you barely even notice it until it’s over. The second one, however, isn’t far behind, and it’s a bit louder. That second thump gives away its location — whatever it was seems to be happening quite close by — in the direction of the parking structure. At just this moment a car cruises through the pick-up zone at full speed, barreling along at least 100 kmh. It’s only because of some very fast reactions that no one gets hurt as it passes by. As it zooms past, you notice there’s no one behind the wheel. Before you have any time to process that, another huge thump nearby causes a section of the barrier wall of an upper floor of the concrete parking structure to shear off. A pile of rubble falls to the ground not very far away from you. -- Mark Pesce, Oct 2015, https://medium.com/@mpesce/the-great-hack-part-one-attack-70c5f7b22f34 https://medium.com/@mpesce/the-great-hack-part-one-attack-70...

_jal 5y ago

Relevant sci-fi: Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. (AI-controlled cars feature prominently as weapons.)

robin_reala 5y ago

I was momentarily confused when I parsed that sentence as referring to the Toyota Mirai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai

MaxBarraclough 5y ago

There has already been a proof-of-concept hack of a vehicle: Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway. [0] (Incidentally, I applaud the top comment at [0]. Everyone involved in recklessly demonstrating the hack on public roads, should have faced serious consequences. As far as I can tell though, nothing came from the police report.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557